Comments on: Interview with Alex Kanevsky

By: Elpedio Robinson

Elpedio Robinson — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:51:46 +0000

A very inspiring interview. I especially like this quote given in another interview, “Build up your self esteem to the level that might seem unwarranted. This will help you ignore both positive and negative responses to your paintings. Both are usually misguided, since they come from the outside. Be your most severe and devastating critic, while never doubting that you are the best thing since sliced bread.”

By: Gina M. Howie

Gina M. Howie — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:55:58 +0000

I enjoyed this interview not only for the directness of Alex’s answers but also for the knowledge that you, the interviewer, brought into this event. I find Alex’s work fascinating and interesting. He has such a beautiful sense of color as well as composition and the ability to ‘say’ what he needs to say without needing to fill in all those details! There’s breathing room… I look forward to reading more interviews! Thanks you!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:45:45 +0000

So loved the answers Alex gave about painting. As an artist I find questions about my work a bit tiresome at times and was grateful for ways to express myself better to others next time thanks to Alex. Love his work. The freedom. Have been looking at Sargent’s work and thinking of loosening up the lines a little. Alex does that to another extreme and I love that. 😀

By: Maggie Siner

Maggie Siner — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:09:07 +0000

This is beautiful work, Alex. Very honest and responsive; to the rectangle, to the paint, to human vision.

By: maryam

maryam — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:52:24 +0000

Congratulation! his works are incredible

By: Alex Kanevsky

Alex Kanevsky — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:31:13 +0000

Thank you Lydia for that painter to Balcomb Greene. I have never seen his work before, but find it very interesting. Apparently there is some of his work in the PAFA collection here in Philadelphia. It will be very interesting to see it in flesh.

By: Lydia Finkelstein

Lydia Finkelstein — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:35:36 +0000

There was a painter very active in the l940s, 50s, and later named Balcomb Greene who treated the
nude in a similar manner as Kanevsky. Use of spacial planes, paint application, lyrical amd even,
to me, a little nostalgic. His work is like trying to remember a dream you had and tried to replicate
in your studio.

By: Mary Breasted

Mary Breasted — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:17:34 +0000

Alex Kanevsky is a fabulous painter. What a rare treat it is to have him put some of what he does into words. His gifts are not merely technical. He has extradinary vision. I love the way he fuses classical forms and classical ideas of beauty with the disjointed angularities of suggested abstraction. For me, he expresses perfectly the fracturing of past certitudes. I see his longing for the old beauties floating along on what he knows about time and the imperfections of memory. But of course, he puts it all better himself, and the Russian accent, somehow audible in the lines above, embellishes the mystery of his genius.
Great interview.

By: Elizabeth Sandia

Elizabeth Sandia — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:16:49 +0000

I just am so inspired with everything I’ve ever seen of Alex’s work. Don’t think I’ve ever read about his background.
His work, and more work, and evolution is just what I am involved with in my own work. In oil. Not my pastel paintings.

Thank you so much and send my regards to Mr. Kanevsky.

Elizabeth Sandia, Santa Fe, NM

By: Bo

Bo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:19:56 +0000

Good read. Good work. Thanks Neil and Alex.